Category Archives: infectious disease

Happy Chinese New Year! Along with that salutation, I wanted to write about a recent paper from New York City, The impact of COVID-19 on people who inject drugs in New York City. This was written by a friend of mine, Dr. Benjamin Eckhardt, along with his colleagues. The results are as expected for thoseContinue reading “Happy Chinese New Year!”

I recently looked at the JAMA clinical challenge, written by Drs Bradley Christensen, Hsiao Li, and Sergio Huerta, entitled “Blurred Vision and Gastrointestinal Bleeding in a Patient with HIV.” The case described the situation of a 57-year-old man with five months of epigastric pain and 15 pound weight loss, HIV/AIDS with a CD4 of 16,Continue reading “Blurred Vision and Bleeding”

I’ve been involved in HIV/AIDS for a long time. My mother was an HIV nurse in downtown Detroit in the 1990s, and I’ve worked on the epidemic in Boston, Philadelphia, San Diego, Mozambique, Namibia, and other countries. I’m sad for the millions of deaths from AIDS globally and the inequity which made it happen. ManyContinue reading “World AIDS Day”

The message dinged our phones on Oct. 27: “Not great news, but a friend just shared there are six confirmed COVID cases in the fourth-grade class.” The group chat of parents and caregivers of third-graders at the Manning Elementary School in Jamaica Plain is usually about misplaced homework and after-school activities. This was something else,Continue reading “Why a CDC investigation of Boston Public Schools COVID-19 outbreaks is needed now”

My son is a student at Manning School, and I believe we need a CDC Epi-Aid to the Boston Public Schools regarding COVID transmission (Curley, Manning, Orchard Gardens Schools, etc). Please sign our petition here. An Epi-Aid is an investigation of an urgent public health problem, such as infectious or non-communicable disease outbreaks, unexplained illnesses,Continue reading “Bring the CDC to the Boston Public Schools”

Our recent article about SARS Cov-2, from the Journal of Hospital Medicine: Emerging studies on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) confirm high rates of infection among healthcare workers (HCWs). As widespread community transmission increases, frontline HCWs, such as hospitalists, are at particularly high risk of exposure to people with undiagnosed COVID-19. Although there is no knownContinue reading “Innovation and Knowledge Sharing Can Transform COVID-19 Infection Prevention Response”